I'm very sorry to self-bump, but can I ask some suggestions? I already changed /tmp to tmpfs so that building large packages won't hit the problem, but the session directory can't be treated that way...
Thanks in advance, // a. > I recently changed all the ext2 partitions on crappy old linux box to > shining jfs. Running Debian with homebuilt jfsutils 1.1.14 on Linux > 2.6.31. Overall I'm satisfied with its behaviour, except that one > thing. The problem is the session backup directory of a certain daemon > where all the files in it are updated periodically, or to be precise, > create-new + delete-old + rename. As a result, that directory got > bloated to over 10MB in just one week of uptime. I'm surprised and > searched over web, and realized that it is indeed an expected > behaviour of current jfs implementation. That directory is meant to be > a failsafe for crashes so that it must reside on real filesystem, i.e. > it's pointless to move it to tmpfs. > > The question is, is there any plan to fix it, that I can count on? I > see some posts dated several years ago mentioning that particular > problem, and it says there were no progress for another years... Just > some workaround or even dirty gross hack with certain drawbacks will > help much. Well, I know removing all the nodes and then repopulating > back does get rid of bloated index, but I think it's not very safe to > do that while the daemon keep running... and no, shutting down the > daemon is a bit painful. Also I believe that it's impossible to do it > safely on the root directory anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
